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plural of glimmer
Synonyms & Antonyms of glimmers
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1
a very small amount
- a glimmer of hope that there will be snow on Christmas
Synonyms for glimmers
- aces,
- bits,
- crumbs,
- dabs,
- drams,
- driblets,
- hints,
- licks,
- little,
- mites,
- nips,
- ounces,
- particles,
- peanuts,
- rays,
- scintillas,
- scruples,
- shades,
- shadows,
- shreds,
- skoshes,
- smacks,
- smells,
- smidgens
- (also smidgeons or smidgins or smidges),
- snaps,
- soupçons,
- sparks,
- spatters,
- specks,
- splashes,
- spots,
- sprinklings,
- strains,
- streaks,
- suspicions,
- touches,
- traces
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Near Antonyms for glimmers
- abundances,
- barrels,
- boatloads,
- buckets,
- bundles,
- bushels,
- deals,
- fistfuls,
- gobs,
- heaps,
- lashings
- (also lashins)
- [chiefly British],
- loads,
- lots,
- masses,
- messes,
- mountains,
- much,
- oodles,
- passels,
- pecks,
- piles,
- plenties,
- potfuls,
- profusions,
- quantities,
- rafts,
- reams,
- scads,
- stacks,
- wads,
- wealths
2
an almost imperceptible sign of something
- most of the students showed not even a glimmer of interest in what I had to say
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glimmers
verb
present tense third-person singular of glimmer
Synonyms of glimmers (Entry 2 of 2)
to shoot forth bursts of light
- the waters of the rippling brook glimmered in the sun
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“Glimmers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glimmers. Accessed 31 Jul. 2021.
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